Just what comes to mind when you think of mechanical engineers? Are they people who design appliances — or people who design airplanes? Or both? Mechanical engineers really do it all, designing and making nearly everything you can imagine.

Solid Mechanics

We study materials and mechanics to tackle various engineering problems encountered
as a result of material failure. The emphasis is given to gain a basic understanding
of material microstructures and properties and their relationships. For example, we
have investigated structure-property relationships of thin films/coatings, mechanical
behavior of materials at nano- and microscales, and microstructure design. In addition,
we use the state of the art nanoscale experimental characterization techniques to
investigate the fundamental properties of nanostructures, nanoscale interactions and
nano devices, and study their applications. We also have extensive collaboration with
industry to study the electronic packaging and reliability using numerical and experimental
methods.

Just what comes to mind when you think of mechanical engineers? Are they people who design appliances — or people who design airplanes? Or both? Mechanical engineers really do it all, designing and making nearly everything you can imagine.